[USA MEN] Leg 1 of the USA's World Cup preparations ends Thursday morning when Coach Jurgen Klinsmann holds the national team's last training session at Stanford University. After 16 days on the Farm, the national team is off to New York, where a Times Square pep rally will be held ... Read the whole story

[WORLD CUP RETRO: 1994] Want to be a World Cup expert and impress your friends with your knowledge of the 1994 World Cup? Here are five names to have at your fingertips about the 15th World Cup, hosted by the USA and won by Brazil. Read the whole story

[BRAZIL 2014] Germany got good news on Wednesday when midfielders Bastian Schweinsteiger and Sami Khedira, both coming off injury-plagued seasons, trained with the team for the first time. Read the whole story

[WORLD CUP 2014 FRIENDLIES] South Korea's send-off match did not turn out well, so poorly in fact that Coach Hong Myung-Bo had to apologize afterward for the 1-0 loss to Tunisia in front of more than 50,000 fans in Seoul. Read the whole story

[MLS: Week 13] For once this season, something has gone right for Eddie Johnson. The D.C. United striker, who did not make the USA's World Cup short list after playing a huge role in qualifying for Brazil 2014, had his red card picked up in D.C. United's 2-1 loss to ... Read the whole story

[U.S. OPEN CUP] In their first-ever cup match, the New York Cosmos beat the Brooklyn Italians, 2-0, to set up a fourth-round match with the New York Red Bulls in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, but two other NASL clubs fell at the first hurdle. The Tampa Bay Rowdies ... Read the whole story

[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] The New York Red Bulls drew the winner of Amway Canadian Championship, either Toronto FC or the Montreal Impact, in group play of the 2014-15 Concacaf Champions League. For all the results of Wednesday's draw in Miami. Read the whole story

"This is a team that must help Messi. We cannot put all the responsibility on his shoulders." -- Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella calls on his squad to support captain
Lionel Messi, who is headed to his third World Cup, the first two of which ended in the quarterfinals. (ESPNFC.com) ...More

Much has been written about the diamond midfield Jurgen Klinsmann has employed the last two matches with mixed results. Its deployment offensively has the
focus of everyone's attention -- how Michael Bradley, at the tip of the diamond, tore apart the Mexico defense in the first half of the April 2 friendly in
Arizona and how quiet he was on Tuesday night at Candlestick, where the USA pulled out a labored 2-0 win thanks to late goals by subs Mix Diskerud and Aron Johannsson. ...More